When Blondie’s teacher, Mrs Clemmons starts acting strangely it’s up to Blondie to find out who is the criminal behind her very strange behaviour. When things lead to declaring an assistant teacher guilty Blondie might just be on the verge of landing herself in boiling hot water. But that’s not the only mystery around… Blondie’s … Continue reading Growing Suspicion: Blondie McGhee – Ashley Eneriz, Catherine Villanueva
Meg misses her father a lot, her school grades are terrible and she is the most unpopular child in school. So things don’t feel or look great. But from the moment Mrs Whatsit arrives on their doorstep it is up to Meg, Charles and their new friend Calvin to discover where Meg’s father is and … Continue reading A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L’Engle
First published in 1934, this autobiographical book is Danish author Karen Blixen’s most popular work. It broadly relates to the period between 1913-1930, when Karen ran a 6000 acre coffee plantation in colonial Kenya and is a story of life on the farm and the farm’s eventual failure. The farm located at the edge of … Continue reading Out of Africa – Karen Blixen
2018 is the year when I returned to reading. Over the years, I had allowed the habit to lapse; it was now not much more than a memory of a once-enjoyed activity. Too much of the occasional & intermittent reading had started happening only with a purpose – to read up an economic trend or … Continue reading 2018 in Books
We started this blog to share our reflections around an activity that we, in our family of 4, all enjoy (or have enjoyed at some point). What we read and the meaning & pleasure, we take from that is probably a reflection of our general state of being. So our first aim in creating this … Continue reading About Us
The Books On Our Shelf 